Two hours of the worst rap records ever recorded? On primetime commercial radio? Where else are you gonna get such amazing treats?

Also note that something screwy happened with the original radio recording, so I had to go to the backup Serato recording. Unfortunately while this gets the mix part of proceedings, it doesn’t pick up any of our very professional sounding mic breaks, so if you’re here for witty banter between myself and Stess then you’ll be disappointed. If you’re here for great Hiphop, you can also probably consider yourself disappointed too.

Queensbridge has birthed some of the most incredible emcees in the history of the game. Tonight on DITC we paid tribute to as many of them as possible, with a special focus on Mobb Deep as we celebrated 20 years of “The Infamous” album.

Remember to check out Diggin’ In The Crates every Sunday with me and Stess on Blazin’ 102.3. Listen live worldwide at www.blazin1023.com

Here’s a couple of April things. The 2nd mix (04/19/15) pays tribute to both Guru and Johnny Kemp via some Gang Starr records and a load of old freestyle joints. Enjoy! (BTW – that Beats International / Nas blend on April 4th is coming soon for all your other DJs who like to jock.)

This has been a long time in the making. Three hours of DJ Premier in an expertly-mixed package, and presented in 2 different ways for your steering pleasure. For those who like to ride out off their phone or Ipod, the first link right below is one full mix, just over three hours long. But, if you click on each of the three covers at the bottom of this post, you can download the mix in 3 separate one hour sections, especially for those six of you who are still burning CDs.

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We’ve done Gang Starr tributes before, but never a fully fledged Primo-only show. I learned several things during this show.

1) Primo has a LOT of records. I had to leave a grip of classics out.
2) I need to check Serato before I do these tribute mixes – for some reason Just To Get A Rep had disappeared out of my crates, and I only had an instrumental.
3) Because of points 1 and 2, I have decided to redo this, tweaking it, adding some shit, dropping some shit, and generally cleaning it up, to turn it into a fully fledged mixtape a la Jigga, Prince/Michael and BIG.

THE DITC PODCAST IS COMING – I KNOW I KEEP PROMISING, BUT TRUST ME. STAY TUNED.

Remember to check out Diggin’ In The Crates every Sunday with me and Stess on Blazin’ 102.3. Listen live worldwide at www.blazin1023.com